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Great! I'll give it a try then.

RDL

Would that copy command above also overwrite the secondary GPT at the end of the disc?

RDL

Mr Grenier,

Thanks for responding! I used this command: sgdisk /dev/sdb -R /dev/sda

I intended to copy GPT of the failing disc, sda, to the new disc, sdb. Just the GPT. As you see above, I got them mixed up. This command copies just the GPT isn't that correct?

Regards,
RDL

I accidentally over wrote my GPT using DD. My 1TB HD (/dev/sda) was showing signs of failure so I bought a 500G Samsung thinking I could clone the larger HD to the smaller SSD (/dev/sdb). Well, I mixed up the commands in an attempt to copy the HD GPT table over to the SSD. You can imagine the result ...